Makeness announces his debut album, ‘Loud Patterns’, on Secretly Canadian. Crafting tracks which make a virtue of disparate influences, Kyle Molleson manages to pull off something difficult: songs which have been tirelessly worked on while sounding loose-limbed and to-the-point.

‘Loud Patterns’ is noticeably indebted to house and techno. There are 4/4 rhythms and a no-nonsense directness that harks back to the Detroit pioneers. Channeling avant-garde experimentalism and an outsider’s interest in pop, Kyle embraces the distance between those two poles.

Cosmic Slop, an underground institution in Leeds, was another touchstone. As Kyle recalls, “That place was definitely an awakening in terms of dance music.” It boasts a handbuilt peerless soundsystem, a near-pitch black dancefloor and a music policy that ranges from Dilla instrumentals to Detroit house.

‘Loud Patterns’ arrives after a series of releases that have established his particular, in between approach to danceminded music. He put out two EPs on Manchester-based imprint Handsome Dad, a one-off single with Adult Jazz and self-released ‘Temple Works EP’. Whities also released a limited edition white label of a Minor Science dub of one of his tracks.

Following the release of ‘Loud Patterns’, Makeness will tour with label kin Unknown Mortal Orchestra across North America and parts of Europe. Makeness will play his largest venues to date since his last North American trip with Jungle in December 2017.

Available to independent retailers on coloured vinyl.